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fellows presentations

 

Rebecca Scarborough
Humanities Fellow
Linguistics Department

Confusability and Contrast:
Phonetics in the Grammar

April 15, 2005

Seth Graham
Humanities Fellow
Slavic Languages & Literatures

Resonant Dissonance: The Russian Joke in Cultural Context

A lecture for the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
November 3, 2004

Phil Ford
Humanities Fellow
Music Department

"We are Primitives of an Unknown Culture:" The Persistence of Exotica in the 1960s

A lecture for the American Cultures Workshop
November 4, 2004
Jessie Labov
Humanities Fellow
Comparative Literature Dept.

Polish Women & Cinema for Sale: Prostitutes, Girlfriends, and Gangsters in Polish Film of the 1990s

December 2, 2004 		Seth Graham
Humanities Fellow
Slavic Languages & Literatures

Chukchi, Chapaev, Cheburashka, Chernenko:
The Russo-Soviet Joke as Deep-Tissue Parody

March 4, 2005 		Bruce Rusk
Humanities Fellow
Asian Languages & Literatures

Old Scripts, New Actors: European Encounters with Chinese Writing, 1550-1700

March 11, 2005

invited speakers

 

Leonard Barkan
Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature
Director, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Princeton University

"Banqueting in Ruins: Ephemeral and Eternal in Renaissance Æsthetic Culture"

January 13, 2005
Public lecture
January 14, 2005
Colloquium with the Humanities Fellows

 

Howard Bloch
Professor of French Literature
Yale University



"The Bayeux Tapestry and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World"


February 3, 2005
Public lecture.
February 4, 2005
Colloquium with the Humanities Fellows.

Linda Bree
Commissioning Editor,
British and European Literature
Cambridge University Press

"From Proposal to Publication:
Academic Publishing Today"

February 17
Public lecture

Dave Hickey
Schaeffer Professor of Modern Letters
University of Nevada Las Vegas


"Beauty and Commerce "


May 19
Public lecture

film series
 

 

Out from Under the Curtain:
Central Asian, Caucasian, and Balkan Film

Organized by Humanities Fellows Jessie Labov (Comparative Literature) and Seth Graham (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

  
winter 2005

Repentance
Introduced by Professor Seth Lerer
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lecture & film screening:

Gulnara Abikeyeva
Fulbright Visiting Specialist, St. Philip's College, San Antonio
Author, The Heart of the World: Films from Central Asia

"Spatial and Temporal Crossroads in Kazakh New Wave Cinema"

Monday, Nov. 29, 6pm
followed by a screening of

THE NEEDLE
Dir. Rashid Nugmanov
Kazakhstan (USSR), 1988 (81 min.)

Sayat Nova
January 24th

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Father of a Soldier
February 7th

 

 

 

 

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